Tennessee Rep. Barbara Cooper (D)

TN - Consumer and Human Resources (House)

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TN - Consumer Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Health (House)

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TN - Facilities, Licensure, and Regulations Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Public Safety (House)

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TN - HR34 Memorials, Recognition - Ronald Kent, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HB2605 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to make broadband internet service available to visitors at all state parks. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 3.

TN - HR244 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Joe Brown, Living Legend Awards

TN - HR32 Memorials, Recognition - Mayor Jim Strickland, Living Legend Award

TN - HR49 Memorials, Recognition - Stan Bell, Moderator for the 2nd Annual Living Legend Award Ceremony

TN - HR38 Memorials, Recognition - Carol Coletta, Living Legend Award

TN - HR39 Memorials, Recognition - Ruby Payne, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HB356 Human Resources, Department of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to produce a survey for a person leaving state service that attempts to ascertain why the person is leaving and any suggestions the person may have to improve state service; requires commissioner to submit a report each year detailing the number of persons who voluntarily left state service and a summary of the surveys. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.

TN - HR43 Memorials, Recognition - Laurice Smith, Living Legends Special Honorary Harriet Tubman Conductors Award

TN - HB359 Education - As introduced, changes the deadline for publication of the Tennessee Postsecondary Education Fact Book from March 15 to March 30 each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR46 Memorials, Recognition - Robert Jefferson, Living Legend Award

TN - HR28 Memorials, Recognition - A C Wharton, Living Legend Award

TN - HR248 Memorials, Recognition - Belinda D. Tate, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB2714 Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, deletes prohibition on the appointment of persons to the board of dentistry who are employed by or are a member of the governing body of a dental school or related educational institution, or any dental supply business or laboratory. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5.

TN - HR44 Memorials, Recognition - Wiley Henry, Living Legends Leadership Award

TN - HR194 Memorials, Recognition - Christopher Clark

TN - HR195 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor J. L. Payne

TN - HB2604 Gambling - As introduced, requires the lottery corporation and board to comply with certain diversity in contracting requirements when contracting with third parties to enforce the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act and supervise compliance with laws and rules relating to the regulation and control of wagering on sporting events in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 14.

TN - HB1198 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a progress report during the first regular session of each general assembly on the anti-poverty plan created by the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 71.

TN - HR245 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Carnita Faye "Amira" Atwater, Living Legend Awards

TN - HR246 Memorials, Recognition - Mary Tate Lee, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB139 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance to cover acupuncture services as a benefit beginning January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HR247 Memorials, Recognition - Michael Ugwueke, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB138 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires peace officers to issue citations in lieu of continued custody and taking an arrested person before a magistrate after the commission of certain offenses; authorizes law enforcement agencies to create programs to refer individuals to treatment for substance abuse in lieu of arrest under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1901 State Inmates - As introduced, requires screening of inmates for chemical dependency, mental illness, and serious emotional disturbance; requires the department of correction to contract with certain departments for psychological services; requires inmates to be evaluated for the presence of a learning disability and provided learning disability intervention services as needed. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - HB1902 Expunction - As introduced, removes misdemeanor driving under the influence of an intoxicant from the list of offenses that are ineligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 55.

TN - HB1971 Textbooks - As introduced, requires a school or LEA to issue required textbooks to all students; requires the director of schools to certify to the commissioner of education by October 15 of each year that all students have been issued all required textbooks. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HR30 Memorials, Recognition - Joris Ray, Living Legend Award

TN - HJR841 Memorials, Recognition - Calvin Anderson, Living Legend Awards

TN - HR21 Memorials, Recognition - Terry Roland, Living Legend Award

TN - HJR848 Memorials, Recognition - Shepperson A. Wilbun, Jr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR849 Memorials, Recognition - Leslie Smith-Thomas, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR852 Memorials, Recognition - Tyrone Burroughs, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR854 Memorials, Recognition - Janice Gill Gray, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR860 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Yvonne Denise Nelson, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR861 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Keith Norman, Living Legend Awards

TN - SB171 Health Care - As introduced, increases from 30 to 60 days the period of advance notice a group policy for accident or sickness insurance must provide to a covered spouse prior to termination of the spouse's coverage as a result of divorce, legal separation, or other separation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB358 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish a pilot project for the 2019-2020 school year to implement ticket programs for behavior management in certain Title I schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB978 Public Employees - As introduced, prohibits public employers from discriminating against applicants for employment and employees with pregnancy-related conditions by not providing the applicants and employees with reasonable accommodations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.

TN - HR35 Memorials, Recognition - Sheriff Floyd Bonner, Jr., Living Legend Award

TN - HR92 Memorials, Interns - Tai Richardson

TN - HJR51 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports establishment of a Full Employment National Trust Fund.

TN - HB2452 Education - As introduced, requires each local board of education and governing body of a charter school to post the board's or governing body's policy governing background check procedures for contract workers and volunteers to the board's or governing body's website. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - HJR864 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Melvin Watkins, Living Legend Awards

TN - HR23 Memorials, Recognition - Charlotte T. Smith, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR24 Memorials, Recognition - Harriet Tubman

TN - HR19 Memorials, Recognition - Order of Elks, National Civil Liberties Annual Summit

TN - HJR858 Memorials, Recognition - Coach Jerry C. Johnson, Living Legend Awards

TN - HR41 Memorials, Recognition - Rufus Jones, Living Legends Special Honorary Harriet Tubman Conductors Award

TN - HR22 Memorials, Recognition - Linda Nettles Harris, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR102 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Gatewood

TN - HJR934 Memorials, Recognition - Representative Johnnie Turner, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR902 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Denise Mustiful-Martin, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR941 Memorials, Recognition - Kevin Potts, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR862 Memorials, Recognition - Mark Stansbury, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR936 Memorials, Recognition - Faith Morris, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR891 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. David L. Acey, Sr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR842 Memorials, Recognition - Clyde R. Venson, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR844 Memorials, Recognition - Georgia Anna King, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR938 Memorials, Recognition - Thelma Nelms, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR940 Memorials, Recognition - Johnnie Mosley, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR943 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. William Terrell, Jr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HB360 Driver Licenses - As introduced, on or after January 1, 2020, requires any person 75 years of age or older who applies for renewal of a driver license to pass a vision test unless the person submits a certified statement reporting the results of an examination by an ophthalmologist or optometrist and the need for any corrective lenses or diagnosed impaired night vision; authorizes persons with diagnosed impaired night vision to use night vision equipment without a driving-during-daytime-only restriction. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HJR843 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Austin Emeagwai, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR845 Memorials, Recognition - Gail Tyree, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR939 Memorials, Recognition - Sarah Carpenter, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR889 Memorials, Recognition - Keedran Franklin, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR866 Memorials, Recognition - Joyce Vinetta Garner, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR856 Memorials, Recognition - Debra L. Sigee, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR857 Memorials, Recognition - Pearl "Eva" Walker, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR853 Memorials, Recognition - Elaine Lee Turner, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR851 Memorials, Recognition - Van D. Turner, Jr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR967 Memorials, Recognition - Christopher Clark, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB2872 Education - As introduced, authorizes an LEA that develops its own adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) training program for the LEA's school personnel to offer that program partially or wholly online. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR859 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. L. LaSimba M. Gray, Jr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR818 Memorials, Recognition - Harriet Tubman Day

TN - HJR850 Memorials, Recognition - Gregory M. Duckett, Living Legend Awards

TN - HR33 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly Robertson, Living Legend Award

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Recognition - Karanja A. Ajanaku, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR942 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Brinders Jones, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR935 Memorials, Recognition - Willie Harper, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR855 Memorials, Recognition - Al Green, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR819 Memorials, Recognition - Michael W. Rallings, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR865 Memorials, Recognition - Christine Taylor-Moore, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR93 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee women elected to public office in 2018

TN - HJR892 Memorials, Recognition - Yvonne B. Acey, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB357 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires certain Title I public schools to implement an age-appropriate, reward-based behavior modification system that reinforces positive student behavior with awards and incentives that are tailored to each school's unique student population. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR847 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Isaac Richmond, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB361 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a permit, waiver, or variance to construct or expand a landfill within five miles of a residence; requires department of environment and conservation to organize meetings between violators and affected citizens upon the filing of a petition by such citizens to review violations and remedial actions. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Chapter 169 of the Private Acts of 1990.

TN - HB106 Fireworks - As enacted, authorizes the retail sale of Class C common fireworks in Millington. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - HR47 Memorials, Recognition - Mary Cheers, Living Legends Community Conductor Award

TN - HR29 Memorials, Recognition - Mayor Lee Harris, Living Legend Award

TN - HR36 Memorials, Recognition - Mayor Terry Jones, Living Legend Award

TN - HR27 Memorials, Recognition - Myrtle Malone, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR37 Memorials, Recognition - Freda G. Williams, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR59 Memorials, Death - Modeane Nichols Thompson

TN - HJR846 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Reginald W. Coopwood, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB977 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, creates a four-year agriculture education pilot project for 11th and 12th grade students; requires the department to create and administer an educational program focused on agriculture education. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 49.

TN - HR25 Memorials, Recognition - Tom Lee

TN - HR42 Memorials, Recognition - Edmund Ford, Sr., Living Legends Leadership Award

TN - HB46 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission to maintain certain office hours on Sundays for purposes of early voting. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HR26 Memorials, Recognition - Gregory Grant, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR31 Memorials, Recognition - Willie Herenton, Living Legend Award

TN - HR45 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Vincent Hunter, Living Legends Leadership Award

TN - HR50 Memorials, Recognition - Bev Johnson, Moderator for the 2nd Annual Living Legend Award Ceremony

TN - HB355 Food and Food Products - As introduced, creates a task force to study the development of initiatives to reduce the waste of food in this state. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - HJR52 Memorials, Recognition - MSNBC, Chris Hayes, Trymaine Lee, and the production team of All In With Chris Hayes

TN - HJR863 Memorials, Recognition - Mabra Holeyfield, Living Legend Awards

TN - HR91 Memorials, Interns - Lydia Wilbourn

TN - HB30 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, permits certain incarcerated persons who are allowed to enroll in courses offered by a community college or Tennessee college of applied technology pursuant to an approved release plan to receive a Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR937 Memorials, Recognition - Keith O. Williams, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB1888 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires at least one driver license testing station that conducts commercial driver license (CDL) tests to be located in each grand division of the state. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HR40 Memorials, Recognition - Lisa Akbari, Living Legend Community Involvement Harriet "Moses" Tubman Award

TN - HR48 Memorials, Recognition - Bennie Smith, Living Legend Award

TN - HB955 Public Utilities - As introduced, prohibits a public utility from charging a deposit as a precondition of providing utility service to persons who have been customers for at least five years and whose accounts have been in good standing for at least five years. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - HB1556 TennCare - As introduced, adds acupuncture, chiropractic, occupational therapy, and physical therapy services performed by authorized persons to the list of healthcare services that may be included as covered TennCare medical assistance. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1327 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes, in leases entered into between Memphis and business owners holding a restaurant license from the alcoholic beverage commission, the inclusion of provisions where the rent is calculated on gross sales, including gross sales of alcohol, of the business; prohibits a county from denying the issuance or renewal of a beer permit on the basis of a similar lease; provisions also applicable to Knoxville within an easement area granted to the city for commercial recreation and commercial recreation facilities from TVA in the Fort Loudoun Reservoir. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1442 Controlled Substances - As introduced, reduces from 90 days to 60 days the threshold of time for a patient who is prescribed opioids, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, or carisoprodol in chronic, long-term drug therapy before the prescriber is required to consider mandatory urine drug testing. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 65; Title 66 and Title 71.

TN - HB2109 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Healthy Food Financing Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB1670 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, removes Nathan Bedford Forrest Day as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB866 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, expands career and technical education programs to middle school grades; requires the board of career and technical education to plan facilities for comprehensive career and technical training for middle school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2457 Firefighters - As introduced, enacts the "Firefighter Suicide Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB823 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, requires, by February 15 of each year, the commission to provide a report to the general assembly detailing appropriations made to, and matching funds received by, each federal land-grant institution of higher education in this state for certain programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB999 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the bluetick coonhound as the official state dog. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB958 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates December 1 of each year as "Mrs. Rosa L. Parks Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB2283 Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, permits a dentist to supervise up to 10 dental hygienists when providing dental services on a volunteer basis through a nonprofit provider of free mobile clinics. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5.

TN - HB794 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows premises authorized to serve wine to also serve high alcohol content beer; requires that the training for applicants for server permits consist of not less than 3.5 hours of alcohol awareness training; clarifies the premises contained in authorization for certain establishments to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption to include tables and chairs contiguous to the outside front wall of a licensee's building; and clarifies that other authorization for designating contiguous areas of the licensee's premises also applies to manufacturers who are licensed to sell at retail on their premises. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB876 Sentencing - As introduced, establishes parole eligibility after 30 years for persons who committed crimes as juveniles and who were sentenced to greater than 30 years; authorizes parole eligibility after 20 years for such persons if certain conditions met; prohibits sentencing persons to life without parole for crimes committed when a juvenile. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1185 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, enacts the "Juvenile Justice Stop Solitary Confinement Act." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1483 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to provide free feminine hygiene products in eligible public high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB1 Gambling - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Sports Gaming Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB1026 Taxes - As introduced, declares July 1, instead of May 31, as the deadline to renew a license to sell, distribute, or handle tobacco products. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1187 Veterans - As enacted, eliminates the fee for interment of an eligible veteran's most recent spouse in a state veterans' cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1240 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, restricts the use of physical restraints on pregnant inmates; requires regular prenatal and postpartum medical care for pregnant inmates; prohibits the use of solitary confinement for pregnant inmates and inmates who have given birth within the past eight weeks. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 68.

TN - HB1423 County Government - As enacted, prohibits interpreting or amending county charter in a manner inconsistent with state law with respect to the duties, qualifications, and privileges of the constitutional county offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, or trustee. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB1440 Law Enforcement - As enacted, makes denial of a claim made by the estate of a law enforcement officer for the annuity payable to the estate of an emergency responder who is killed in the line of duty subject to review by the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission within 90 days of the claim's denial; redefines "law enforcement officer" for purposes of determining which law enforcement officers are considered an emergency responder whose estate would be eligible for the annuity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - HB1538 Shelby County - Subject to local approval, authorizes proceeds from the hotel motel tax to be used for expenditures incurred in connection with a sports facility and the promotion of tourism. - Amends amend Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.

TN - HB1550 School Vouchers - As introduced, deletes the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1715 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offenses sexual abuse of a corpse, a Class D felony, and aggravated sexual abuse of a corpse, a Class C felony; requires a person convicted of either offense to register as a sexual offender. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB518 Firefighters - As enacted, creates a program managed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance to annually award grants to volunteer fire departments for the purchase of firefighting equipment or to meet local match requirements for federal grants for the purchase of firefighting equipment and training. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB94 Education - As enacted, establishes a task force regarding the creation of the Tennessee outdoor education and recreation grant program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 49 and Title 70.

TN - HB273 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - HB1368 Public Records - As introduced, requires public records commission to annually report any changes to the public records laws in this state to the general assembly not later than December 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB942 Controlled Substances - As enacted, increases the penalty to a Class B felony for 15 grams or more or a Class A felony for 150 grams or more of fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1199 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends eligibility for receipt of Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grants to students who are attending certain independent postsecondary institutions and who are otherwise eligible for the grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1184 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, prohibits the removal of pregnant prisoners to a state penitentiary or branch prison for safekeeping; prohibits solitary confinement of pregnant prisoners. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB1866 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, increases the notice period, from 30 to 45 days before the effective date, by which a covered entity or pharmacy benefits manager must disclose to a pharmacy or pharmacist in its network any material change to a contract provision that affects the terms of reimbursement, the process for verifying benefits and eligibility, the dispute resolution procedure, the procedure for verifying drugs included in the formulary, and the procedure for contract termination. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB980 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, adds William R. Moore College of Technology as an eligible institution for receipt of the Tennessee promise scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB941 Expunction - As enacted, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB619 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create and administer a coaching network for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers throughout the state, to begin in the 2019-2020 school year; declares certain goals for the coaching network; requires the department to ensure the availability of early childhood consultants regionally, throughout the state. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1203 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires Tennessee advisory committee for acupuncture, not later than January 31, 2020, to report to the Tennessee board of medical examiners the number of certificates issued to practice acupuncture in this state in 2019, and a 10-year plan to grow the practice in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HB37 Public Health - As enacted, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.

TN - HB2586 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates "Women's Suffrage Day" as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1339 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop a state plan for computer science in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1628 Consumer Protection - As introduced, creates a reward for information leading to the recovery of a civil penalty against a person who knowingly causes any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to a subscriber with the intent to defraud or cause harm to another person or to wrongfully obtain anything of value. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - HB1121 Psychologists - As introduced, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to submit its annual report to the governor in electronic form. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB353 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, allows certain persons who receive certified occupational training as a prisoner or a student in a high school technical training class to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license relating to the training received. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 37; Title 38; Title 41; Title 49; Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB2203 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, makes various changes to the licensing of and prescribing authority for advanced practice registered nurses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB909 Elder Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB416 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits a trustee or former trustee of a board of trustees of a hospital authority from entering into an arrangement for employment or the provision of labor or services with the authority until at least 12 months have expired following the trustee or former trustee's tenure of service on the board. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.

TN - HB949 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, enacts the Governor's Investment in Vocational Education Act; specifies that financial assistance received for all dual enrollment courses attempted after the fourth dual enrollment course reduces any subsequent award of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-930.

TN - HB810 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB340 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, makes various changes to civil forfeiture procedure, including requiring the district attorney general to review the underlying circumstances of a seizure to determine if probable cause exists to justify forfeiture and, when appropriate, file a motion to dismiss the application for forfeiture warrant, upon which the court shall dismiss the application and return the seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - HB912 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the poem "My Tennessee," written by Michael McDonald in 1984, as an official state poem of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-303.

TN - HB17 Children - As introduced, establishes a presumption that a minor who is the victim of a sexual offense or engaged in prostitution held a reasonable belief that the use of force is immediately necessary to avoid imminent death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HR214 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the department of education to enroll students in the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot program no earlier than the 2021-2022 school year.

TN - HR62 Memorials, Death - John Kilzer

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HR86 Memorials, Interns - Shane Richards

TN - HR87 Memorials, Interns - Hailey Ragsdale

TN - HR351 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HR64 Memorials, Recognition - Social Work Month, March 2019

TN - HR68 Memorials, Retirement - Harrison D. McIver III

TN - HR3 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

TN - HR218 Memorials, Death - David C. Driver, Jr.

TN - HR53 Memorials, Recognition - Manny and Adele Macca, Manny's House of Pizza

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HJR688 Memorials, Death - William B. "Bill" Whitson

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Recognition - Jaynee K. Day and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee

TN - HJR808 Memorials, Recognition - HBCU 2nd Annual Joint Day on the Hill

TN - HJR382 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Marjorie Jean Yaeger, 90th birthday

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Retirement - State Trooper Joe Wynne

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HJR588 Memorials, Recognition - National Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day

TN - HJR608 Memorials, Retirement - Vanessa M. Horner

TN - HJR974 Memorials, Death - Victor Thompson

TN - HJR630 Memorials, Recognition - Memphis Light, Gas and Water, 80th anniversary

TN - HJR118 Memorials, Recognition - Kathy Moore, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR691 Memorials, Public Service - Scott W. Gilmer

TN - HJR416 Memorials, Recognition - YWCA Greater Memphis, 100th anniversary

TN - HJR983 Memorials, Recognition - Sonny Hicks

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Professional Achievement - David Poile, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame

TN - HJR73 Memorials, Personal Achievement - John W. Huffman, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR72 Memorials, Recognition - Isabella Wren Sullivan, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR742 Memorials, Death - Elizabeth Blair Allen Daniel

TN - HJR867 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Youth Courts, Inc., 20th anniversary

TN - HJR697 Memorials, Recognition - Town of Collierville, 150th anniversary

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Recognition - Helen Abbott, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR644 Memorials, Retirement - Helen Ford

TN - HJR607 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jeremiah Higginbottom, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR629 Memorials, Recognition - City of Memphis, Bicentennial

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HJR171 Memorials, Sports - Bob Kesling, Voice of the Vols

TN - HJR1 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes teen suicide as a health crisis in Tennessee.

TN - HJR103 Memorials, Recognition - African-American Breast Cancer Awareness Week, September 8-14, 2019

TN - HJR139 Memorials, Death - Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr.

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HJR701 Memorials, Sports - Maryville High School, 2019 TSSAA Class 6A Football State Champions

TN - HJR575 Memorials, Recognition - Maryville High School, 100th anniversary

TN - HJR377 Memorials, Death - Monroe James "M.J." Edwards, Sr.

TN - HJR150 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports ratification of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution; calls on the United States Congress to remove the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment by the states.

TN - HJR954 Memorials, Recognition - Multi-state commemoration of 55th anniversary of Selma-to-Montgomery March

TN - HJR573 Memorials, Recognition - Minister Larry Keele, Midway Church of Christ

TN - HJR409 Memorials, Recognition - Blount County Public Library, 100th anniversary

TN - HJR467 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Peiton Kristyana Jarmon

TN - HJR412 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Cookie Hopper, Miss Anderson County 2019

TN - HJR631 Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County, Bicentennial

TN - HJR435 Memorials, Retirement - Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos

TN - HJR411 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Lily Steed, Miss Oak Ridge 2019

TN - HJR475 Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis men's basketball team

TN - HJR132 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for a teacher's bill of rights.

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HJR683 Memorials, Recognition - Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week, February 7-14, 2020

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR433 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie Schwarz, 2018 Christ the Teacher Award

TN - HJR175 Memorials, Death - Kenneth "Rance" Roby

TN - HJR442 Memorials, Interns - Sydney Burchell

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

TN - HJR583 Memorials, Sports - Hunter Sturgill

TN - HJR613 Memorials, Government Officials - Designates House Seat 34 in the House Chamber of the State Capitol as the "Charles Sargent Memorial."

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR786 Memorials, Death - Sterling Haskel "Hack" Ayers

TN - SB2699 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, prohibits a general sessions court clerk from collecting a fine, costs, or litigation taxes that have been in default for at least 15 years following the year in which the fine, costs, or litigation taxes became delinquent. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18; Title 28; Title 29 and Title 40.

TN - SJR978 Memorials, Recognition - Lucy Blaylock, Prudential Spirit of Community Award

TN - SJR610 Memorials, Recognition - Tom Sorrells, REdl Hall of Fame